To: When I was younger, I was really, really s*****. I was loud, annoying,
Me: We all go through that stage when we are young and getting ready to fly the nest, it is how it is.
You can look back now and see that you hurt people because of the way you acted then and that is a good thing, because you can remodel your life, so you don’t ever behave like that again.
Life is like a learning curve and we never stop learning how to improve ourselves and how we relate to others, it is called “growing up” and “taking responsibility” for our actions and learning to be a much better person than we previously were.
I have regrets from my childhood, which I wished I had never made, but I was innocent, did not know anything and did not have the skills to behave any better and I often wonder how my life would have changed for the better, “If”, but that’s the way it is and I guess I’ll never know.
You only have this life and how long you live it, is entirely up to you and how you live your life will eventually determine the sort of person you are, whether good or bad.
I decided to be good and I have been good all of my life – I don’t believe in life after death, but in case there is something, I’ve tipped the scales of life well over to the good side and that is 100% better than going over to the bad side, with potentially, a life after death in Hell, or the nearest thing to it, if such exists.
You have to decide how you will be and put the past behind you, because that is like history, you can’t change anything, but you can change much in your future, which has not happened yet, perhaps to improve on who you once were, to who you want to be, in the future, in a positive way.
At days end, the best rule of thumb is “how you like yourself” and if you don’t for whatever reason, change things, so that you do like yourself, for all of the right reasons and keep working on that, to be everything you want to be and get out of life and more, is what I have done, for myself and I regret nothing, which I can’t change, anyway, to be who I now am – and I like me now lots!!
